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The open source project, React Boilerplate, is a highly
scalable, offline-first foundation with the best developer experience and a
focus on performance and best practices. It helps take away some of the
obstacles you may face with a new library and gives you somewhere to start.

Netlify was excited to extend an open source plan to React
Boilerplate, especially since we use it in-house ourselves. Combined with a few
external tools they’re able to take advantage of a workflow that enables the
highest level of collaboration, a necessity for an open source project.

Contributors

Conception & Kickoff: Dennis Brotzky

Design & Development: Michael Mullins

Cheerleader: Max Stoiber

The open source project, React Boilerplate, is a highly
scalable, offline-first foundation with the best developer experience and a
focus on performance and best practices. It helps take away some of the
obstacles you may face with a new library and gives you somewhere to start.

Netlify was excited to extend an open source plan to React
Boilerplate, especially since we use it in-house ourselves. Combined with a few
external tools they’re able to take advantage of a workflow that enables the
highest level of collaboration, a necessity for an open source project.

A few words with Max from the Contributors...

Could you tell us a little bit about your project?

Netlify

reactboilerplate.com is a website for an open source project (react-boilerplate), so naturally there’s a lot of different voices wanting to be heard. Thanks to Oliver Turner and Michael Mullins we decided to dogfood react-boilerplate by building its website with it, which isn’t necessarily the best use case for React but provided us with ample feedback to make sure the (then) unreleased third version was rock solid.

Max StoiberOpen Source Developer at Thinkmill, the Contributors

Why did you choose Netlify?

Netlify

Since React Boilerplate is an open source project, it was vital that everybody could deploy the project. Changes to master needed to be immediately reflected on the live website, one person being responsible for deployment was going to fail eventually, but was also a bottleneck. Not only does Netlify provide the perfect workflow for open source projects, the integrated deploy previews mean that we can visually see the changes before merging something to master, which is unbelievable!

Max StoiberOpen Source Developer at Thinkmill, the Contributors

What is your favorite Netlify feature?

Netlify

F-yeah :) - deploy previews!

Max StoiberOpen Source Developer at Thinkmill, the Contributors

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Water for People has an admirable and heavy task every day, bringing clean and safe water to over 4 million people in need.

With an international team, translations, and ecommerce section for donations, WaterforPeople.org uses the Netlify platform paired with site generator Middleman to make it all happen. See more about their toolset, how they utilize the Netlify platform, and learn about an amazing non-profit below.

Water for People has an admirable and heavy task every day, bringing clean and safe water to over 4 million people in need.

With an international team, translations, and ecommerce section for donations, WaterforPeople.org uses the Netlify platform paired with site generator Middleman to make it all happen. See more about their toolset, how they utilize the Netlify platform, and learn about an amazing non-profit below.

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The ‘serverless’ part of the JAMstack is really picking up pace and its powered by tiny cloud functions rather than monolithic database driven APIs.

Serverless Inc. stands at the forefront of this movement and delivers an open source framework for working on top of AWS Lambda which makes it easier than ever to build your own custom APIs. Using Netlify to take away the need for running a backend for their site as well, Serverless.com is truly serverless and incredibly performant.

Learn more about their JAMstack toolset and how they are taking advantage of being on Netlify.

The ‘serverless’ part of the JAMstack is really picking up pace and its powered by tiny cloud functions rather than monolithic database driven APIs.

Serverless Inc. stands at the forefront of this movement and delivers an open source framework for working on top of AWS Lambda which makes it easier than ever to build your own custom APIs. Using Netlify to take away the need for running a backend for their site as well, Serverless.com is truly serverless and incredibly performant.

Learn more about their JAMstack toolset and how they are taking advantage of being on Netlify.

Intrawest and agency Evans Hunt had a primary focus when creatingcanadianmountainholidays.com: make the site fast. Using seven core tools, internal APIs and Netlify they were able to deliver that and more.

See below as the take us through their technical process of developing a rich media site ‘Canadian Mountian Holidays’ and learn which tools made the cut to build a truly beautiful, and fast, site.

Intrawest and agency Evans Hunt had a primary focus when creatingcanadianmountainholidays.com: make the site fast. Using seven core tools, internal APIs and Netlify they were able to deliver that and more.

See below as the take us through their technical process of developing a rich media site ‘Canadian Mountian Holidays’ and learn which tools made the cut to build a truly beautiful, and fast, site.

A technology partner that has clients such as Brown-Forman, Magbooth and even GE, Forest Giant is on the cusp of creative software solutions. Describing themselves as a group of “collaborative thinkers not bound to any one technology”, it was important that this be reflected in all tools that they use.

As huge proponents of Golang they looked to Netlify to enable them to be the ultimate Go shop while using Hugo as a static generator and integrating with their Git-centric workflow. Check out what Forest Giant’s tool set looks like and how they’re using Netlify today.

A technology partner that has clients such as Brown-Forman, Magbooth and even GE, Forest Giant is on the cusp of creative software solutions. Describing themselves as a group of “collaborative thinkers not bound to any one technology”, it was important that this be reflected in all tools that they use.

As huge proponents of Golang they looked to Netlify to enable them to be the ultimate Go shop while using Hugo as a static generator and integrating with their Git-centric workflow. Check out what Forest Giant’s tool set looks like and how they’re using Netlify today.

DevOpsDays hosts some of the top DevOps conferences all over the world. Just this year they’ve helped organize a DevOpsDay in over 35 cities. As a site, devopsdays.org requires constant updating and maintenance from different teams all over the world.

Learn which tools they use to handle multiple chefs in the kitchen and how Netlify enables them to maintain their site.

DevOpsDays hosts some of the top DevOps conferences all over the world. Just this year they’ve helped organize a DevOpsDay in over 35 cities. As a site, devopsdays.org requires constant updating and maintenance from different teams all over the world.

Learn which tools they use to handle multiple chefs in the kitchen and how Netlify enables them to maintain their site.

This site of the week comes straight from Brooklyn. Carrot Creative is a top New York agency owned by Vice Media. They’ve been named one of the best places to work in all of New York several times. This is not surprising considering their client list includes everyone from Ferrari and Rolex over H&M and Subway, and they actually bought their own pizzaria to keep their developers happy.

Here at Netlify, our biggest reason for being fans is the effort Carrot makes to push the JAMstack forward. Not only have they made a lot of great CDN based sites, but they’ve even created their own open source tooling including the site generator Roots!

www.carrot.is is cool and lightning fast! We invite you to check it out and see what they had to say about their site and about working with Netlify.

This site of the week comes straight from Brooklyn. Carrot Creative is a top New York agency owned by Vice Media. They’ve been named one of the best places to work in all of New York several times. This is not surprising considering their client list includes everyone from Ferrari and Rolex over H&M and Subway, and they actually bought their own pizzaria to keep their developers happy.

Here at Netlify, our biggest reason for being fans is the effort Carrot makes to push the JAMstack forward. Not only have they made a lot of great CDN based sites, but they’ve even created their own open source tooling including the site generator Roots!

www.carrot.is is cool and lightning fast! We invite you to check it out and see what they had to say about their site and about working with Netlify.

No surprise, Sequoia Capital is the most prominent VC of Silicon Valley. They’ve quite literally invested in most of the prominent tech company in the last 30 years. Google, Apple, Oracle, AirBnB, Cisco, PayPal, Dropbox, WhatsApp, Youtube, LinkedIn, Docker, Stripe, Square, Atari deep breath - and more.

What may surprise some of you is that the sheer volume and performance requirements of their .com. Where you might expect a simple site with a handful of pages, the huge portfolio, job postings and language variations has resulted in a site with more than 15,000 html pages, and tons of contributors

See below to understand how they made Sequoiacap.com a JAMstack site - gaining huge performance over their previous site, and why they chose Netlify to do it.

No surprise, Sequoia Capital is the most prominent VC of Silicon Valley. They’ve quite literally invested in most of the prominent tech company in the last 30 years. Google, Apple, Oracle, AirBnB, Cisco, PayPal, Dropbox, WhatsApp, Youtube, LinkedIn, Docker, Stripe, Square, Atari deep breath - and more.

What may surprise some of you is that the sheer volume and performance requirements of their .com. Where you might expect a simple site with a handful of pages, the huge portfolio, job postings and language variations has resulted in a site with more than 15,000 html pages, and tons of contributors

See below to understand how they made Sequoiacap.com a JAMstack site - gaining huge performance over their previous site, and why they chose Netlify to do it.